BARE BONES
A COLLINS ENGLISH DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS SET, AND A BRADFORD’S CROSSWORD SOLVER’S DICTIONARY
WIN
Our Bare Bones Crossword is unique because you have to complete the grid – numbers and squares – as well. We have inserted four black squares and four clue numbers to get you going. The crossword has a fourway symmetry: both top and bottom and left and right match, so you can fill in 12 more squares straight away.
There is a prize of a Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus set, and a Bradford’s Crossword Solver’s Dictionary. Send your solution to: Bare Bones Puzzle No 990, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, April 9 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on April 25 from the first correct entry drawn.
Winner of Bare Bones No 987: Douglas Williamson, of Crossgates, Fife.
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Across
1 Improvises some pasta 5 Number happening to be found in
Saxony’s borders
9 Old rope, for an artist 10 The ram’s turned into a pet
12 Avid sort of performer 13 Nurse has right fashion 14 Moose getting seafood, discarding first couple 15 Turned to small joke 17 Some dictators have their own doctor 19 Conveyance starts to buckle in kinetic energy
21 Guarantee conflict and shout
22 Attempt to conceal woman in workshop 23 Non-specific officer 24 Motto has time and isn’t going
Down
2 Animal all right next to a Greek character
3 Health worker used lantern inappropriately (Two words)
4 Build upright
6 Antelope from eastern country
7 Seasonal character playing tunes nearby (Two words) 8 Adjustment puts wife in wood
11 Set to scan your head
16 Stage changed shape
17 Frenzy gives fellow excellent return
18 Incantation from church worker 20 Returning old king managed to find holy book